Word: contemptibility
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...Nations are not moved solely by self-interest", he declared, "but also by motives of racial antagonism. That is the great danger. It means contempt and suspicion among all countries and the estrangement of nations between whom there should be the fullest degree of confidence. Men must acquire a spirit of international brotherhood and good fellowship, without which radical change of sentiment no agreement or peace can ever take place...
...came as a distinct blow to Rolland. His plea for peace and universal understanding seemed a thing of the past. His life work, seemed undone. Without hesitation, and with a contempt for popular opinion, he continued to urge the people to listen to him. Though it meant that he must live in what was practically a voluntary exile in Switzerland he gladly chose to do this in order that he might remain true to his ideals. There he wrote his "Above the Battle" (1915) and corresponded win Hauptmann, caring nothing for ridiculous accusations of being Pro-German so long...
...interesting to note that the administrators of the railroads should turn to a university professor for light upon their complicated problems. In spite of the traditional contempt in which "men of affairs" hold "men of learning", the latter are constantly proving the value of seclusion in meeting the difficulties of the every-day world. All or which serves to emphasize the fact that contempt is no more than traditional...
...become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply a part of that general contempt of the New America for an ancient--and eternal--ideal that stubbornly refuses to die in spite of the threats of democratic dogma...
Theodore Roosevelt, who was then president, recorded his contempt of the Bogota Treaty which was made after this revolution. He expressed himself in these words: "I did not lift my finger to incite the revolutionists. Colombia was solely responsible for her own humiliation, and she had not then and has not now, one shadow of claim upon us moral or legal; all the wrong that was done, was done by her." And now certain interests are trying to "rail-road" this treaty--which has never been ratified--through the present Congress...